Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

Summary Tape File 1 (STF 1) consists of four sets of
computer-readable data files containing detailed tabulations of the
nation's population and housing characteristics produced from the 1980
Census. This series is comprised of STF 1A, STF 1B, STF 1C, and STF
1D. The STF 1 National Subset file was created by ICPSR in conjunction
with the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). This
file is a subset of STF 1 and has data for all 50 states, the District
of Columbia, for each of the approximately 3,150 counties and county
equivalents in the United States, and for approximately 450
incorporated and unincorporated cities in the nation with populations
of 50,000 persons or more. There are 321 substantive data variables
organized in the form of 59 "tables," as well as standard geographic
identification variables. All of the data items contained in STF 1
were tabulated from the "complete count" or "100-percent"
questions included on the 1980 Census questionnaire. The data are
provided in the original Census Bureau format so they can be accessed
by CENSPAC and other software packages that are oriented toward STF 1
data in the format provided by the Census Bureau.

Summary Tape File 1 (STF 1) consists of four sets of
computer-readable data files containing detailed tabulations of the
nation's population and housing characteristics produced from the 1980
Census. This series is comprised of STF 1A, STF 1B, STF 1C, and STF
1D. The STF 1 National Subset file was created by ICPSR in conjunction
with the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). This
file is a subset of STF 1 and has data for all 50 states, the District
of Columbia, for each of the approximately 3,150 counties and county
equivalents in the United States, and for approximately 450
incorporated and unincorporated cities in the nation with populations
of 50,000 persons or more. There are 321 substantive data variables
organized in the form of 59 "tables," as well as standard geographic
identification variables. All of the data items contained in STF 1
were tabulated from the "complete count" or "100-percent"
questions included on the 1980 Census questionnaire. The data are
provided in the original Census Bureau format so they can be accessed
by CENSPAC and other software packages that are oriented toward STF 1
data in the format provided by the Census Bureau.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: SUMMARY TAPE FILE 1 NATIONAL SUBSET. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1981. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1982. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08077.v1

The Census Bureau has issued User Note No. 2 for the
STF 1 data files, describing a calculational error that occurred in
each of the STF 1B files. The single data item that comprises Table 44
(Median Contract Rent) is incorrect and should not be used. Rather
than reissue all the files in this series, the Bureau's User Note
No. 2 provides the calculational formula for computing this median
from the grouped data given elsewhere in STF 1B. This User Note is
included in the documentation for these files.